Honoris Causa — Reaching For Darkness Review
Honoris Causa is a gothic metal band from Czechia. On the 6 December, 2020, the band independently released their debut EP, entitled Reaching For Darkness, promoted through GlobMetal Promotion.
Honoris Causa, Reaching For Darkness Review: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production.
The First Three Sins, The Summary
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Features chromatic progressions of raunchy/distorted guitar playing mixed with clean, dark, and melancholy melodic/harmonies chords, back with keyboards/synths/acoustic pickings. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves female operatic and soprano vocals and deep, harsh male vocals. The Third Sin, The Percussions: Delves into the vast world of epic (mixed tempos) drumming and floor beats.
The Fourth Sin, Overall Discussion
As soon as the play button is pressed, one is welcome to the opening title track, City With No Heart. This track welcomes the listener to the sound of rain, the ringing of church bells, and someone entering a building of some sort. The song then breaks into a sound of epic choir vocal style, one-beat of the drums, before breaking off with some edgy guitar/drum playing and melody/soft sections. While the remainder of the song is finishing off, there is so much darkness and energy within the opening track.
The remaining five tracks give the listener more than just Gothic metal. Still, an emphasis on melancholy and darkness surrounded by a haunting dreamlike atmosphere of great songwriting, concept, and devilmanship while capturing this soul essence of Paradise Lost, Lacuna Coil, The Cure, tint of H.I.M., and many more.
Topped off with extraordinary deliverance (build-up within the songs) of creativity of (also) capturing a clean, crisp sound/production, the dark romanticism of Gothic rock, excellent experience of fantastic stylish (catchy) guitar/chord playing, sorrowful keys/clean riffs and melodic sections, various tempos and darkly moods.
Reaching For Darkness comes to an end with the last song, Falling (Lacuna Coil Cover). Truly captures the essence of the album. The sorrowful and melancholic ending makes it a perfect ending to an emotional and captivating album. We want to give a shoutout to GlobMetal for letting us review Honoris Causa and their album, Reaching For Darkness. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia
For us, everything from the sound to the dark atmosphere. Including the guitar work and Lucia’s beautiful voice/singing.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork
Draws back to the old-school days.
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish
There is nothing to dislike in the musical offerings of Honoris Causa, and their album Reaching For Darkness. Thus, we conclude our review of Honoris Causa, and their album Reaching For Darkness. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for your time in reading this article, and I encourage you to explore the works of Honoris Causa, and tand GlobMetal Promotions.
The Hymns
01. City With No Hearts
02. The One
03. Wine and Silence
04. Stone Bad
05. Grim Reaper
06. Falling(Launa Coil Cover)
Honoris Causa
Migliavacca — Bass
Lucia “Lucyanna” Leškovská — Vocals
Jesse Valle. — Guitars